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GENDER, FAMILIAL CONTROL, AND DELINQUENCY *
Author(s) -
HILL GARY D.,
ATKINSON MAXINE P.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1988.tb00835.x
Subject(s) - curfew , juvenile delinquency , control (management) , psychology , social control , developmental psychology , social psychology , power (physics) , sociology , computer science , medicine , social science , artificial intelligence , physics , disease , pathology , covid-19 , quantum mechanics , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This research addresses a key process in power‐control theory, namely, the gender stratification of social control. Using a multidimensional measure of familial control, the authors find evidence that the types of familial control employed are stratified by gender: male children are more typically aligned with paternal support and appearance rules, and female children are more often the objects of maternal support and curfew rules. All four dimensions have significant negative effects on delinquency. Brief attention is given as well to the effects of these variables on contact with formal social control agencies.